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    "pk": 60197,
    "title": "Shedding Light on Copyright Trolls: An Analysis of Mass Copyright Litigation in the Age of Statutory Damages",
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    "abstract": "Copyright law and the Internet are at an impasse. The looming\n \nquestion is how to approach unlicensed distribution of copyrighted\n \nworks in the age of peer-to-peer networks. To supplement profits from\n \ncopyrighted works, copyright holders have devised a mass-litigation\n \nmodel to monetize, rather than deter, infringement. Because of the\n \nexistence of statutory damages, plaintiffs utilize the threat of outlandish\n \ndamage awards to force alleged infringers into quick settlements.\n \n \nStatutory damages incentivize litigation-based businesses and\n \nencourage copyright holders to waste judicial resources by litigating\n \neven when actual damages are nominal. This Article presents an\n \nanalysis of the legal and policy issues that arise in a mass-litigation\n \nmodel primarily through filings in federal district courts. After a\n \ndiscussion of the original purposes of U.S. copyright law, this Article\n \nconcludes that statutory damages should be removed from the 1976\n \nCopyright Act.",
    "language": "en",
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    "section": "Articles",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6cw1p518",
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            "first_name": "James",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "DeBriyn",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "",
            "department": ""
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    "date_submitted": "2015-04-25T11:37:56-04:00",
    "date_accepted": "2015-04-25T11:37:56-04:00",
    "date_published": "2011-12-31T19:00:00-05:00",
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